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By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) â A Pennsylvania teenager whose profanity-laced outburst on social media got her banished from her high schoolâs cheerleading squad is in the spotlight at the U.S. Supreme Court this week, arguing âI shouldnât have to be afraid to express myself.â
Brandi Levy, who made her Snapchat post away from school and on a weekend, is at the center of a major case testing the limits of the U.S. Constitutionâs First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech. The nine justices on Wednesday are set to hear arguments in the Mahanoy Area School Districtâs appeal of a lower court ruling in favor of Levy that found that the First Amendment bars public school officials from regulating off-campus speech.
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(Reuters) — A Pennsylvania teenager whose profanity-laced outburst on social media got her banished from her high school s cheerleading squad is in the spotlight at the U.S. Supreme Court this
By Syndicated Content
By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) â Two days after Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania held its cheerleading tryouts, ninth-grader Brandi Levy was still fuming about being passed over for a spot on the varsity squad.
While a younger girl had been picked for varsity, Levy was facing another year relegated to the junior varsity cheer squad. That Saturday afternoon in May 2017 â standing not on school grounds but in the Cocoa Hut convenience store in Mahanoy City in the stateâs coal country â Levy pulled out her cellphone and, along with a friend, raised her middle finger to the camera.